A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
ANDRE GIDETrust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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